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DxvnEd and Managed by the 



iNoRFOLK & Virginia Beach R, R. Co, 




VIRGINIA BEACH 



CONNfCT/ONS. 



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'll^GIfllfl BEflCH is situated in Princess 
Anne County, Va., eighteen miles due east of 
Norfolk, thirty miles from Old Point Comfort, 
and six miles south of Cape Henry, and forms a 
part of the most beautiful beach on the Atlantic Ocean, and only thirty miles 
from the Gulf Stream. 

The property belonging to the 

NORPOI^K & YIRGINIA BEACH RAII^ROAD COMPANY, 

Includes a site of about sixteen hundred acres, one thousand of which consists 
of a primeval pine forest, many of whose trees are more than a century old. 

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It has an ocean frontage of five miles^ 
with a gently sloping beach, and the absence 
of any undertow is a marked feature. The 
temperature of the water averages seventy- 
six degrees in summer, is warmer and the 
bathing more prolonged than on the New Jersey 
or Lono; Island Coasts. 



The average winter temperature is fifty-four degrees. 
Average summer temperature, seventy-eight degiees; the extremes of temperature 
for the year being only thirty-four degrees. 

Its equable temperature and its proximity to the Gulf Stream make it 
warm and balmy in the fiercest winter months. 

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Its situation in the midst of pines, its 
Leach unequalled for bathing and driving, the 
diversity in its many other ways for enjoyment, 
place it in the foremost rank of Summer or 
Winter resorts either in this country or abroad. 
Dr. A. Y. P. Garnett of Washington, 

D. C, who isnow (1888), President of the Medical Association of the United States, 

stated in a lecture delivered at a meeting of the 

American Climatological Association, held at 

Baltimore, Md., May 31st, 1887, that "Compared 

with Atlantic City and Fortress Monroe, the 

two localities on our immediate seacoast most 

frequented as winter resorts, we cannot fail to 

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recognize the superior natural advantages of Vir- 
'. N oiuia Beach. Nature has endowed it with those su- 
preme attributes of sanitary power, beyond the ca- 
l)acitv of man to give." Dr. Egbert Guernsey of 
s ^ ''^^''^l^^^iyigpr^m "■^'^ N. Y. , and otlier famous physicians and some of our 
leading medical reviews havebeen quite as conspicuous in theirpraise of Virginia Beach. 
Under the new management a large number of improvements have been 
made, consisting of an esplanade, the erection of a number of fine cottages, 
the establishment of Arc Electric Lights along the beach and in the pavilion, a 
canal connecting Lake Holly with Linkhorn Bay, the construction of numerous 
- walks, and the beautifying of the grounds. 

Li addition to the improvements made and being made by the Company, 
a large number of the most prominent citizens of Norfolk and elsewhere have 



purchased lots and are erecting fine cottages, 
which will not only improve and beautify the 
appearance of the grounds, but will greatly 
enhance the social attraction of Virginia Beach. 

THE NORPOI^K & YIRGmiA 

BEACH RAILROAD 

Connects the Beach with Norfolk, eighteen miles distant, 
and the ride is made in forty minutes, passing througli 
an interesting and varied country. 

THE PRINCESS ANNE HOTEI^, 

Owned and managed by the Company, has been completely rebuilt and rearranged 

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^iid has been made one of the best equipped, most convenient and comfortable 
resorts for both Summer and Winter in the country. 

It will be kept open tliroughout the year, and it lias every convenience 
which modern thought has devised for the comfort of its guests. It will be 
opened for summer guests on June 1st, under an entirely new management. 

It will accommodate four hundred guests, has electric lights and bells, 
spacious entertainment rooms, a billiard room, bowling alleys, tennis court, 
children's playrooms, private and 
public parlors for adults, hot and 
cold sea- water baths, elevator and 
all other features of a first-class 
hotel. The pavilion near the hotel 
is two hundred and fifty feet long, 




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and one hundred feet wide, and affords de- 
lightful and ample opportunity for excursion parties, 
out-door exercises, games, sports, etc. 

In Winter, glass enclosed balconies and veran- 
dahs, sunny rooms and open wood fires will by their 



influence minister to the comfort of guests. 



The hotel has perfect drainage and all modern sanitary 
A''-'^ X>C.~~ " appliances. It is accessible by all steamboats, steamships 
and railroads terminating at Norfolk, from which city to the ocean and return, 
trains run hourly during the season MAKING CLOSE CONNECTIONS 

WITH ALL STEAMBOAT, STEAMSHIP AND RAILROAD LINES RADIATING THEREFROM. 



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AMUSEMENTS, 



SURF AND STILL WATER BATHING, CRABBING, 
BOWLING, BILLIARDS, TENNIS, HORSE-BACK RIDING 
AND CHARMING DRIVES through the towering pine 
forest, may be indulged in. Other amusements are devised and entertainments 
given consistent with the pleasure and requirements of its guests. 

ROWING, SAILING AND FISHING 

may be enjoyed on Lake Holly, Linkhorn and Lynnhaven Bays, all of 
which are adjacent to the property, the latter being famous for its delicious 
oysters. 

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Twelve miles south and easy of access by a well 
made road is the famous 



DUCK SHOOTING GROUNDS OF BROAD BAY, 
the u[)per }.art (»f Currituck Sound, and game is abundant in the forest. 

The FISHING and HUNTING of this vicinity has earned for it the 
soubriquet of the SPORTMAN'S PARADISE. 



MUSIC THROUGHOUT THE SEASON. 



A TELEPHONE WIRE TO NORFOLK is maintained by the Company 
for the use of guests desirous of obtaining advice of physicians, drugs, shop- 
ping, etc. , etc. 

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The Western Union Tele- 
graph Company has an office 
in the Hotel. There are ample 
mail facilities, and a well-appointed 

Boarding and Livery Stable. 



A pleasant daily excnrsion to or from 

OLD POINT COMFORT OR FORTRESS MONROE. 




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Full information given in regard to Rooms, Rates, the purchase of lots for 
Cottages, &.C,, on application to the 

COMPANY'S OFFICE, 44 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, 

— OR — 

T. 0. TROY, Gen'L SUP'T, NORFOLK, Va„ 

Or, J. W. ALMY, Manager, Virginia Beach, Va. 




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NORFOLK & VIRGINIA BEACH RAILROAD CO, 



OWNER OF THE PRINCESS ANNE HOTEL, 

VIRQINIA BEACH, VA. 



CHAS. W. MACKEY, 
W. J. WALSH, 
J. W. ROWLAND, 
CALDWELL HARDY, 



President. 
Vice-President. 
Sec'y and Treas. 
Ass't Treasurer. 



WM EVANS, Jr , 
J. W. ALMY, 
WHITE & GARNETT, 
T. 0. TROY, - 



Ass't Secretary. 
Managerof Hotel 
Solicitors. 
General Sup't. 



Principal Office, NORFOLK, VA., 

Branch Office, 44 BROADWAY, N- Y. 



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